{allcanada} Joni Mitchell suffered aneurysm, can't speak

 

Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell suffered a damaging brain aneurysm and has not yet regained her ability to speak, her old friend David Crosby told Huffington Post on Friday.

Crosby said he has not spoken to her because "to my knowledge she is not speaking yet."

Although she's a "tough girl," he said she took a "terrible hit. She had an aneurysm and nobody found her— for a while."

He said she's now home, in care and recovering.

"How it's going to go, we don't know yet. She's going to have to struggle back from it the way you struggle back from a traumatic brain injury."

Ever since Mitchell was rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital after being found unconscious on her bathroom floor nearly three months ago, updates on condition have been few and far between, and confused by conflicting information circulating online.

Crosby, her former boyfriend, has provided the first update on her status since April 28, when a post on her official website said that, contrary to online reports, she was not in a coma.

"Joni is still in the hospital but she comprehends, she's alert, and she has her full senses. A full recovery is expected," the post said.

On May 4, at a court hearing, her longtime friend, Leslie Morris, was granted the power to make medical decisions for her.

"I love her," Crosby said in the interview with Huffington Post. "She's probably the best of us — probably the greatest living singer-songwriter."

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